On December 27, Chongqing Municipality held a ceremony to award the "2019-2020 Chongqing Fumin Xingyu Contribution Award" to 2 collectives and 10 individuals. Among them, Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. won the "Special Award for Contribution to Fumin Xingyu Contribution Award" for its outstanding contribution to economic development and its outstanding performance in technological innovation and social welfare undertakings.
The Fumin Xingyu Contribution Award is a commendation activity approved by the central government and selected by the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and the Chongqing Municipal Government every two years, aiming to commend those collectives and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the social and economic development of Chongqing.
Changan Automobile was awarded a special award in this year's selection, which fully affirmed its innovative and outstanding contributions as a leading enterprise to the construction of "intelligent manufacturing town" and "smart city" in Chongqing, and to the realization of China's automobile power dream.
At present, Changan is experiencing the third entrepreneurship. Focus on chips, core algorithms and other fields, build the system capability of "Core Diagram Core Cloud Nettian", jointly lay out new tracks of science and technology, focus on innovative applications and full-scenario digital connections, and create a digital ecology; build a "partner" relationship with users to create automotive ecological products; and successively release intelligent "Beidou Tianshu Plan", "Shangri-La Plan" and "New Car + New Ecology" strategies.
Changan Automobile, on the road to becoming an intelligent low-carbon travel technology-based enterprise, has run out of "acceleration" and become the only state-owned independent passenger car brand enterprise with both scale and efficiency. In April 2019, Changan laid out a global R&D center in Chongqing, involving 12 fields such as simulation analysis, noise and vibration, and passive safety, and built 180 laboratories such as hybrid power and environmental testing.
Changan Automobile is self-reliant in key technologies, and has mastered more than 1,100 core technologies such as intelligence and new energy, and has 5892 patents. The research and development strength has ranked first in the industry for ten consecutive years, and the production and sales of independent brand automobiles have ranked first in China for many years, promoting the automobile industry to become Chongqing's economic business card.
From January to November this year, Changan Automobile's sales reached 2.12 million units, an increase of 17.7% year-on-year, of which Changan's Chinese brand cars sold 1.63 million vehicles, such a brilliant achievement, but also the epitome of industrial innovation in the new era. Self-reliant, independent innovation, and high ambitions, Changan Automobile dares to break through the key core technical problems of "card neck" and enhance the independent and controllable ability of the industrial chain and supply chain.
In Chongqing, the automobile industry has formed a "1+10+1000" advantageous industrial cluster supply chain with Changan as the leader, more than a dozen vehicle enterprises as the backbone, and thousands of supporting enterprises as the support. While developing itself, Changan Automobile also joins hands to drive other enterprises to develop together to achieve a "win-win situation" and play a decisive role in pulling the local economy.
During the epidemic period, Changan Automobile fully embodied the responsibility of the enterprise, and established a mask production team through the "cross-border of car companies", and as of November 29, 2021, it had produced a total of 20.821 million masks and distributed 19.801 million masks. And the development of thermal imaging epidemic prevention vehicles, free of charge to Chongqing high-speed rail stations, communities and other municipal, transportation, medical service institutions to help epidemic prevention.
At the same time, Changan Automobile has driven the development of 20,000 upstream and downstream enterprises in Chongqing, promoted the endogenous cycle of the national economy, driven 800,000 people to employment, attracted 229 talents and 42 senior talents in core fields for Chongqing globally, and made every effort to fight a high-quality development battle and actively contribute to the economic and social development of Chongqing.
Changan Automobile will take this award as a new starting point, seize the historical opportunity of the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing, run out of "acceleration" on the transformation road of becoming an intelligent low-carbon travel technology-based enterprise, focus on breaking through the "card neck" problem, enhance core competitiveness, and fully promote the strategic action of "new car + new ecology", and strive to achieve world-class enterprises and create a world-class international brand.